Thursday, December 30, 2010

Trkei: 138 years in prison Fri Kurdish journalist

A series of newspaper articles that proved fateful: A court in Turkey has sentenced a Kurdish journalist to 138 years in prison. The texts had been classified as propaganda for the terrorist group PKK. Diyarbakir - Journalist Emine Demir was sentenced for a series of newspaper articles that were considered by the court in Diyarbakir as "pro-terrorist propaganda" on the banned Kurdish terrorist group PKK.

Which reported the Anatolia news agency. Demir formerly worked as editor of the Kurdish newspaper "Azadiya Welat", which the PKK is. He was awarded for each of the 84 2008-2009 back issues a sentence. Thus came 138 years together in prison. Demir was arrested on the basis of the controversial Turkish anti-terror laws.

The PKK has been fighting for 1984 against the Turkish State, and both Turkey and the EU and the U.S. classified as a terrorist organization. Currently, increased efforts to run an end to the conflict. as /

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